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Monday, May 4, 2009

Transportation / Snoutbreak Apropos of Metro

Posted by on Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Seattle streetcar, 1918:

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From the National Archives, via Sociological Images.

 

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1
Masked streetcar bandits were very common in those days.

This one looks like an inside job.
Posted by RonK, Seattle on May 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM
2
Now if only the street cars went to greenlake now...
Posted by nathan on May 4, 2009 at 4:39 PM
michael strangeways 3
yes, and our current flu epidemic is soooooo much like the 1918 one...ecb won't be happy until she sees stacks of bodies lining the streets of Seattle while she smugly sits in her bunker with her 27 cans of Dinty Moore stew, 3 cases of Funyons and 122 bottles of red, red wine gloating over how right she was about the threat of pandemics...
Posted by michael strangeways http://www.seattlegayscene.com/ on May 4, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Joh 4
Swine flu is so last week. The new craze Pokemon. Get with the times.
Posted by Joh on May 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Diana 5
The conductor appears to be waving goodbye to the cougher they just kicked off the streetcar.
Posted by Diana on May 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Greg 6
Reminds me how they ripped out all the streetcar lines in the 50s. Thanks for nothing, Grandpa!
Posted by Greg on May 4, 2009 at 6:56 PM
7
And when is the waterfront streetcar coming back? Or is it ever?
Posted by Weekilter on May 4, 2009 at 8:27 PM
8
I wonder if Seattle needed the 1918 equivalent of 11 Billion dollars to build that streetcar and it's tracks.
Posted by montex on May 4, 2009 at 11:08 PM

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